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How to apply natural language processing in the enterprise
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 02:00
GUEST: It's no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transitioning out of R&D labs and into the mainstream market for enterprise applications. Leaders in the computer vision space such as those developing a...
Five Signs That It's Finally Time To Reinvent Yourself (In Business And In Life)
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 00:44
I was just schooled recently on the new Millennial epidemicof the quarter-life crisis. After years of "work martyrdom" and lack of world travel like previous generations, many 20-somethings are nowapparentlyon the brink ...
How AI helps marketers tell better stories
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 00:18
GUEST: We live in exciting times. Or as Peter Diamandis would say, we live in "exponential times". Digital disruption is everywhere. There's always a new new thing. This is so true that we sometimes take it for granted a...
Sequoia Capital Scores Again With A Chinese Tech IPO in NY
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 22:09
Sequoia Capital China gains big in its second IPO of a Chinese portfolio company in the U.S. - delivery service ZTO and English-language learning mobile app 51Talk.
Why the second coming of Facebook commerce is good for everyone
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 22:05
GUEST: In the last month, Facebook has ramped up its commerce-focused activities by announcing a range of new initiatives including Facebook Marketplace, a Craigslist-style service for buying and selling stuff, a standal...
Emteq's faceteq is all about building an emotion-tracking platform for VR
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 21:10
FEATURE: As one of the top 20 universities in the U.K., The University of Sussex offers undergraduate courses that could be pivotal to the future of VR. Its teachings stretch across neuro, cognitive and biomedical scienc...
Colorado's Minimum Wage Hike May Make Inequality In The House Worse
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 20:15
The law would also raise wages for employees who earn tips, and the restaurant industry argues this will increase the income disparity with employees who don't. And one supporter of the measure agrees.
It's not you, it's them: 10 signs your technical cofounder is struggling
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 20:08
GUEST: As a startup founder who doesn't code, you're dependent on your technical cofounder. (They need you too, but that's for another post.) Even in larger Silicon Valley, engineers often run companies and cultures, and...
Dear, San Francisco: Office space data says your tech bubble is not popping (and probably never will)
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 19:40
FEATURE: For anyone counting the days until the tech boom that has transformed San Francisco over the past decade is coming to an end, the latest commercial real estate data offers just a shred of hope that there is the ...
How Traveling More Can Hone The Skills Of A Successful Entrepreneur
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 18:35
Photo courtesy of Peter Lane Taylor Road trips usually start with a bold and outlandish idea, which is what makes them a distinctly American tradition. Our most recent one began with a meeting in Los Angeles. We live thr...
How Traveling More Can Help Hone The Skills Needed To Be A Successful Entrepreneur
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 18:35
Photo courtesy of Peter Lane Taylor Road trips usually start with a bold and outlandish idea, which is what makes them a distinctly American tradition. Our most recent one began with a meeting in Los Angeles. We live thr...
How Microsoft plans to find you the best bots
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 18:33
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may be the most publicly vocal tech giant CEO in his belief that conversation will be as impactful to computing as the graphic user interface. So maybe it makes sense that the company has made...
Serving up a better burger: How IoT and blockchain will reinvent the global supply chain
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 18:05
GUEST: Say you get served a burger at a restaurant, and something about it isn't quite right. Do you know what went wrong? Does your server? Does the restaurant? The suppliers? Hard to know. Each part of the sandwich - t...
Activision launches Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare tour guide bot for Facebook Messenger
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 17:35
Ahead of the release of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in five days, Activision launched a Facebook Messenger bot that acts as a tour guide in a choose-your-own-adventure trip through the game. The Terminal Tours Messeng...
How Tekken keeps adapting, from arcades to esports
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 17:00
FEATURE: Katsuhiro Harada is synonymous with Bandai Namco's long-running Tekken franchise, serving as producer and director (and voice actor!) at various intervals throughout the series' 23-year history. As one of the la...
Do You Hire Whiners or Winners? It Depends? Stop It!
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 16:33
What's your track record like at hiring decent managers? Be honest. Have you made mistakes? Let's face it, CVs, interviewing techniques and references do not make the hiring process fool proof. For instance, how many of ...
Dyn's massive attack: How startups can find opportunities in the chaos
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 16:02
GUEST: The Internet of Things has turned against us. Just last week, baby monitors, DVRs, and other connected devices were used as the launching point for a DDoS attack against the DNS infrastructure of Dyn, impacting th...
Why Valuing Your Business Is More Art Than Science
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 16:00
Shutterstock A business owner's equity stake in their company is typically his or her most valuable asset. That also goes for employee owners, whose share of a company's ESOP can be the difference in achieving a comforta...
Why You Need Fewer Customers, Not More
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 13:00
I was getting towards the end of my speech, and I could feel the level of discomfort rising in the room. They could tell where I was heading. I was going to tell them to do the thing they least wanted to do. It was a ses...
Razer DeathAdder Elite is the best mouse for gaming
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 03:10
REVIEW: For years, Razer has had the go-to gaming mouse with its DeathAdder. Now, in its latest revision, the device is better than ever. The Razer DeathAdder Elite keeps everything that has made the mouse so great over ...
Developers share insights from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare beta
Venture Beat - 30 Oct 2016 00:53
Activision’s Infinity Ward studio posted the insights that it learned from the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare beta and how it is changing the game as a result. The beta ran for the last two weekends, with players from ...
Cloud Entrepreneurs: Valuation Multiples Come From Your Unique Twist
Forbes - 30 Oct 2016 00:09
Progressly works with companies to make sure their system of record, is cloud enabled and then helps to make it intelligent. He views this as a 3-layer value proposition that holds greater value for the businesses they s...